Will the Z Appreciate?

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Pooltee

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Hi all,

Was having a conversation the other day about cars, and got on to the subject of depreciations. The Z4 seemed to take quite a heavy knock in its first few years, but they do seem to hold fairly reasonable resale values.

So you think the e89 is a car that will go full circle and start to increase in value, or has it just not got a big enough audience to warrant this?

Cheers

Paul
 
Yes it will - eventually. Just need all the boy racers to crash theirs first so there are fewer around... Give it another 15 years :)
 
You're better off enjoying driving it than worrying about its value and how much you'll get in a decade.

Just think of how much more fun you'll have! :driving:
 
The Alpina's have definitely appreciated and the M's may become collectible. Forget the rest. Maybe worth something in 50 years.
:lol:
 
Not a chance. The 35is’s will bottom out like M’s then stay steady as there are only roughly 400 of them in the UK but appreciate....? very very much doubt it, the chassis is too crap to make it anything other than a cruiser and now the new G29 is here and is a better car even with the 2.0 engine so the E89 has lots of competition.

Obviously just IMO and could be completely wrong. :D
 
Any car, given time will bottom out, and eventually become rare and there will always be someone that wants one.
Who honestly thought a MK1 Mex would be wotrh £35 grand?, and i can remember turning one down at £250!!!
Answers only required from the few that have one in their garage now that bought them in the 80's when they were for nothing.
if you stilll have your E85 or E89 in 40 years time in good condition, it will be worth more than you paid for it...
 
Agreed, they’ll bottom out eventually, but can’t see them increasing any time soon.
Maybe 30 years or so.
 
kinger said:
.....if you stilll have your E85 or E89 in 40 years time in good condition, it will be worth more than you paid for it...
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Unless the whole world has gone electric by then & nobody wants anything with an internal combustion engine, imagine if there were no filling stations left, or none within a sensible range of where you live.
 
No, of course not. Its a fossil fuel vehicle. In 15 - 20 years it'll be nothing more than a paperweight on your driveway.
Just be glad you didnt buy a Mc Laren
 
Chris_D said:
The Alpina's have definitely appreciated and the M's may become collectible. Forget the rest. Maybe worth something in 50 years.
:lol:
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What Chris said. :thumbsup:
 
Talking about appreciation in 1968 I bought a MK1 Lotus Cortina for £495 then about a year later sold it for £465, one recently sold for £185,00 with racing history no doubt, but even an ordinary one in mint condition will sell for in excess of 70k. Makes you want to cry !!
 
With enough time there won't be many around as most will have gone to the scrappers and that's when they will start to go up in value particularly low mileage well looked after examples, the bigger engine capacity cars will be worth more and the special models like the M or Alpinas will go up even more. Just take a look at old Beemers today and you will see even humble models with low miles and showroom condition making tidy sums. As for this EV stuff sure it maybe the future but I doubt fossil fuel cars are going to disappear in the next 10 or 20 years maybe in around 30 to 40 years perhaps if that. Otherwise people would stop paying out millions for rare Ferraris Porsche etc. right now.
 
buzyg said:
Chris_D said:
The Alpina's have definitely appreciated and the M's may become collectible. Forget the rest. Maybe worth something in 50 years.
:lol:
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What Chris said. :thumbsup:
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When i'm 110 i don't think the Z will be the only thing i need to worry about not working :oops:
 
enzed4 said:
Argenta said:
IHMO no, the e89 alone has sort of ruined the Z4 name I'm afraid.
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the e86 alone has sort of ruined the Z4 name I'm afraid. :poke:
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Set the bar to high and the brilliance was never to be achieved again?
 
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